Ok I have an interesting question and this might not apply to everyone, but i would love to see if other people get this. I run a blog site and according to adsense on any given day I average around 50-100 clicks. With about 4-7k impressions Now I also have tracking from MyBLogLog.com on the site, this tracks clicks which take people offsite, adsense clicks all show up in MyBLogLog and they even show up from which google adsense box they are clicked. According to MyBlogLog I'm seeing more like 150 clicks per day combined, and they both switch over the reporting at the same time, based off american time. Im just going to assume they probably switch over to new day at midnight. Can anyone explain why MyBlogLog reports all those clicks, and why adsense does not? This seems very strange to me and im wondering if anyone else sees anything similar from MyBlogLog or other tracking software?
Mybloglog or for that matter any other click tracking mechanism is not full proof. They record mouse over clicks, which escalate the number. I suggest try to trust adsense reporting more than any other 3rd party tool.
I wish google had more transparency when it came to determining how it figures out number of clicks. I can understand they need to be careful with click fraud, but i'm looking at google reporting only half of my daily clicks, i don't click the ads, i don't pay for traffic so no bad bots. And i can only assume bots that follow the google links don't count as clicks or just plainly dont follow those links. I could understand if adsense and mybloglog were within range of each other by 10-20 clicks. But yesterday for instance. adsense determined - 60 clicks myblog log - 140 clicks That has got to be busted, willing to provide screenies of this also. I trust the myblog log reporting for offsite clicks to because some of the advertisers on my site report exactly the numbers MyBlogLog does, of traffic i have sent to them. So i find it all a bit strange L:|, wondering if anyone else gets this, or has some insight into it.
Phrenetical, there are some people who click multiple times. Those clicks are discounted. Again, i would like to reiterate in mybloglog mouse over clicks are counted when those are not clicks at all.